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Women and literature --- Feminist fiction, English --- Body, Human, in literature. --- Feminism and literature

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Popular fiction in mid-Victorian Britain was regarded as both feminine and diseased. Critical articles of the time on fiction and on the body and disease offer convincing evidence that reading was metaphorically allied with eating, contagion and sex. Anxious critics traced the infection of the imperial, healthy body of masculine elite culture by 'diseased' popular fiction, especially novels by women. This book discusses works by three novelists - M. E. Braddon, Rhoda Broughton, and 'Ouida' - within this historical context. In each case, the comparison of an early, 'sensation' novel against a later work shows how generic categorization worked in the context of social concerns to contain anxiety and limit interpretive possibilities. Within the texts themselves, references to contemporary critical and medical literatures resist or exploit mid-Victorian concepts of health, nationality, class and the body.

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Body [Human ] in art --- Body [Human ] in literature --- Corps humain dans l'art --- Corps humain dans la littérature --- Human body in art --- Human body in literature --- Lichaam [Menselijk ] in de kunst --- Lichaam [Menselijk ] in de literatuur --- Menselijk lichaam in de literatuur --- Menselijk lichaam in kunst --- Acting --- History --- Theater --- Themes, motives

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Body [Human ] in literature --- Corps humain dans la littérature --- Femme (Théologie chrétienne) dans la littérature --- Femmes dans la littérature --- Femmes dans la poésie --- Femmes dans le théâtre --- Fysisch gehandicapten in de literatuur --- Handicapés physiques dans la littérature --- Human body in literature --- Lichaam [Menselijk ] in de literatuur --- Menselijk lichaam in de literatuur --- Physically handicapped in literature --- Vrouw (Christelijke theologie) in de literatuur --- Vrouwen in de literatuur --- Vrouwen in de poëzie --- Vrouwen in het toneel --- Woman (Christian theology) in literature --- Women in drama --- Women in literature --- Women in poetry --- 820 <73> --- 82.04 --- #PBIB:2000.3 --- Amerikaanse literatuur --- Literaire thema's --- American fiction --- People with disabilities in literature. --- Human body in literature. --- Human body --- People with disabilities --- Women in literature. --- Popular culture --- Sideshows --- Feminism and literature --- History and criticism. --- Social aspects. --- Social conditions. --- History. --- 82.04 Literaire thema's --- 820 <73> Amerikaanse literatuur --- People with disabilities in literature --- Side shows --- Amusements --- Handicapped in literature --- Body, Human, in literature --- Human figure in literature --- History and criticism --- Social aspects --- Social conditions --- History --- United States --- 20th century --- Physically handicapped --- Stowe, Harriet Elizabeth Beecher --- Davis, Rebecca Harding --- Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart --- Petry, Ann Lane --- Lorde, Audre --- Morrison, Toni --- Criticism and interpretation

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Human body in literature. --- Hysteria in literature. --- Literature and mental illness --- Literature and society --- Mental illness in literature. --- Mentally ill in literature. --- Narration (Rhetoric) --- Psychology and literature. --- History, 19th Century --- Hysteria --- Medicine in Literature --- Social Conditions --- Hysteria in literature --- Mental illness in literature --- Mentally ill in literature --- Human body in literature --- Psychology and literature --- Literature --- Histrionic Personality Disorder --- History, Modern 1601 --- -Sociology --- Socioeconomic Factors --- Humanities --- History --- Population Characteristics --- Personality Disorders --- Social Sciences --- Anthropology, Education, Sociology and Social Phenomena --- Health Care --- Mental Disorders --- Psychiatry and Psychology --- English Literature --- English --- Languages & Literatures --- history --- History. --- Body, Human, in literature --- Human figure in literature --- Literature and psychology --- Insanity in literature --- Psychopathology in literature --- Authors, Insane --- Mental illness and literature --- Poets, Insane --- Narrative (Rhetoric) --- Narrative writing --- Rhetoric --- Discourse analysis, Narrative --- Narratees (Rhetoric)